2938 examples of curving in sentences

Sir Gui rode at a hand-pace, and as he rode the folk drew hastily aside to give him way, and bent the knee full humbly or stood with bowed heads uncovered to watch him pass; but 'neath bristling brows, full many an eye glared fiercely on his richly-habited, slender figure, marking his quick, dark glance, the down-curving, high-bridged nose of him with the thin lips and the long, pointed chin below.

The exercise is just finished, and we gaze upon a miniature representation of the Cliff House embankment and curving road, a section of beach with people standing (wooden ladies and gentlemen from a Noah's Ark), a section of ocean, and a perfect Seal Rock made of clay.

She had a great, curving nose, and a great, curving chin, and what with this and her bright, black eyes, and stooping figure, she was very much like what a witch should be,albeit a very superior kind of old witch.

She had a great, curving nose, and a great, curving chin, and what with this and her bright, black eyes, and stooping figure, she was very much like what a witch should be,albeit a very superior kind of old witch.

Not to be outdone, Lanyard gave a fleeting smile, a bare curving of lips together with an almost imperceptible narrowing of amused eyesgoading the other to the last stage of exasperationthen calmly ignored the fellow, returning indifferent attention to the progress of the sale.

Instead of the stones which are what strangers chiefly expect at her hands, she gives us a wealth of fertile meadows; instead of stormy waves breaking on a frowning coast, she shows us smooth basins whose shores are soft and wooded to the water's edge, and into which empty wonderful tidal rivers, whose courses, where the tide-water has flowed out, lie like curving bands of bright brown satin among the green fields.

As he buttered his muffin, not without some refinement, I could see that his hand was long, a curious, lean, ineffectual hand, with a curving little finger.

That fine, high forehead, the curving lips, the nose, with its clear-cut nostrils,not even the disfiguring woolly wig, stiff collar, and blackened face and hands could disguise them to her.

An ample vale Peneios floweth through, 'Mid bush and tree its curving shores it laves; The plain extendeth to the mountain caves, Above it lies Pharsalus, old and new.

It was linked to the road by a curving driveway marked on either side by whitewashed stones.

" On foot Wharton walked up the curving driveway, and if from the house his approach was spied upon, there was no evidence.

We have perhaps no single spot where it grows in such perfect picturesqueness as at "The Laurels," on the Merrimack, just above Newburyport,a whole hill-side scooped out and the hollow piled solidly with flowers, the pines curving around it above, and the river encircling it below, on which your boat glides along, and you look up through glimmering arcades of bloom.

Shut your eyes, and the inward vision sees once more the long line of sandy and shingly beaches, the green curving-up of the surges tipped with dazzling foam,sees the motionless and blackened timbers of the wreck on the shore, the white wings dipping and turning along the combing tops of the waves racing in upon the sands,sees the dry tufted beach-grass, and the wet, shining, compact slope down which slides swiftly the under-tow.

Thence to Capdenac the valley was a curving line of uninterrupted but ever-changing beauty.

"Holloa, Quance!" shouted Fred, slightly slackening his speed and curving in toward shore.

If the leaning or fallen trees were the thorny, slender-stemmed boritana palms, which love the wet, they were often, although plunged beneath the river, in full and vigorous growth, their stems curving upward, and their frond- crowned tops shaken by the rushing water.

There were many palms, both the burity with its stiff fronds like enormous fans, and a handsome species of bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds.

You will know this little bird by his nervous Wren-like ways and jerking tail, even if you are not near enough to see his markings and long curving bill.

" "So we will," said Robert, as he looked around at the great curving forest, its deep green tinted with the light brown of summer.

Nothing can be more suitable for its purpose then the "Workman's Stool:" the seat is precisely like that of a modern kitchen chair (all wood), slightly concaved to promote the sitter's comfort, and supported by three legs curving outwards.

At last Lady Constance dashed out upon the highway with a smile of cunning on her face, a devil's flash from her eyes, a haughty curving on her lips, and her heart beating faster and faster, the nearer she drew to the King's palace.

Now, clear to the up-curving edge of the world, nothing could be seen below save the steel-gray, shining plains of water.

He peered out the window at the vast, indigo horizons of the desert, curving off to northward into a semicircle of burnished blue.

These should be as nearly as possible of a size, and the greater length of the two upper ones concealed by the covering of those at the side in such manner as to preserve the appearance of just proportion: the bottom petal being broad and two-lobed, and well expanded, not curving inwards.

LXXXII Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon, With purple shadows on the silver grass, And the warm south-wind on the curving sea, While we two, lovers past all turmoil now, Watch from the window the white sails come in, 5 Bearing what unknown ventures safe to port!

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